The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-01
Notes and Opinions.

THE Canadians are becoming alarmed
over the influx of pauper immigration
from Europe.
YESTERDAY" remarks a Dakota
paper, eve were again married." How
many of you?
GARLAND says he is not candidate
for the vacant place on the supreme
bench. IT'S well.
REPUBLICAN votes in the senate of
Virginia defeated measure to repudi-
ate the state debt.
THERE are considerably over 10000
persons confined at the present time in
prisons in the United States.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS tells the
Commonwealth Club that politics are all
at sea. Another case of "wigwam
lost"
THE world is full of fault-fnding,
grumblers and busy-bodies, who es-
TEEN it their duty to interfere in other
peoples business.-I'eroS Champion.
THE nihilists, instead of going to
church, usually spend the first day of
the week in efforts to replace the des-
potism of one Romanoff with that of
another. -ETchdnge
LAST November Dakota polled SO, l64
votes for one delegate to congress, who
cannot vote, while Georgia elected ten
members of the house with an aggre-
gate vote of less than $4,000
ABOLISH poverty and divide property
equally and nobody would have a
thousand dollars. Nobody, therefore,
could own a house of any size or pay
for building one.-Richmond Dispatch.
AN exchange says: " Protection dies
hard" Dies. 1t has never been more
healthy. Fifteen of the ablest news
papers in the South have pronounced
for protection during the past year.
Journal.
"HENRY GEORGE gets S75 night
for lecturing. Henry doesn't want any
land. Money is good enough for
him. "-Puck. Mr.. George should di-
vide with those who get less pay for
harder work.
CAPTAIN H. c. PARSONS, president of
the Ohio & Northwestern railroad, for
merly of st. Adams, has been selected
by the editor of the Century to write
the forthcoming article on Farnsworth'
great charge at Gettysburg.
THE President did not fill the vacancy
on the United States supreme bench be-
fore he left for his two weeks fishing
and those who ought to be informed
upon the subject say that he will not be
hasty in making the selection.
Two large Chicago firms of barbed
wire manufacturers have been bank
rupted by the interstate commerce law
1t is some satisfaction to know that
there is something that can run against
ting hurt.-NorristOwn Herald.
THE government is to give particu
larly good Indians medal. This will
make the bad Indians disgruntled, es
pecially if the medals are big. Perhaps
after all, keeping promises with the In
dams would be better than loading
them with medals. Record.
IT doesn't take much to amuse some
people. A fashion writer, who insists
that the proper way to button coat is t.
begin at the bottom button, says: " No
day passes but have to laugh at PEG
pie who say they are going to buttoI
their coats up and then calmly proceed
! to button them down."
THE name of Jefferson Davis is YER
foolishly kept before the people of thi
country as an irritating quantity. Thi
is done by the southern democrati
papers, and when unfavorable common
} is made by northern or republican
, paper or speaker these same southern
F democratic newspapers denounce thi
comment as " shaking the bloody shirt.
; POVERTY is relative The man VIII
has learned to live within his income
: be that income less than dollar day
! is richer than the man whose habitus
: wants call for more than he earns
. though his earnings reach thousand
yearly. 1t is pity that this bottol
\, fact of all discussions about poverty
: so carefully shirked by men who spea
- to wage-earners.-T Tribune.
e AS was perfectly proper, the Pres
i, dent of the United States was treate
e with all due respect on his passag